In London, the Grafton Galleries, the Wharncliffe Rooms, the Portman Rooms, the Savoy Hotel and the Princess Galleries were popular locations for society dances before the First World War and served as models for the new building type.Footnote 14 Following the war, fashionable restaurants and hotels continued to expand their dancing facilities, as new dances from across the Atlantic captured the public imagination. Someone (it might have been a policeman) said the Palais was a good bet - adding 3738Google Scholar. Postcard view of the Chinese themed interior, Hammersmith Palais, 1921 (author's private collection). 45 Dancing Times (September 1929), p. 551. The dcor was a patterned backcloth, reminiscent of bubbles of water, based on Roy Lichtenstein's painting Landscape with Boat. Sure I remember the manager winding us up, walking along the queue saying if our shoes not polished were not getting in ;-) First place I met Shippo, remember Kempy, Tommy Cragg and Kevin Husbands too, no one would forget Curley of course. 75962. I dont have an exact date for this but it would be about March/April 1968. In the 1920s, borrowing from US cinema designs, atmospherics was widely used to create escapism in the dance hall.Footnote 87 This design trend was about bringing the outside inside, with interiors made to resemble Spanish patios or Italian villa gardens (as seen in the Spanish Hall at the Winter Gardens in Blackpool, and the Italianate lake backdrop on the main stage in the Tower Ballroom). 78 Carl Heimann cited in Anon., Stepping Out (London, 1940), p. 54. From the mid-1920s to the mid-1960s, the dance hall occupied a pivotal place in the culture of working- and lower-middle-class communities in Britain. I had a great time at the Palais. We set up camp, we liberated the floor with a dosing of talc, we were joined by our mates later on and there we stayed until 10pm. It was just like being in the Palais in 69 again except for the white hair ( on me as well as some of the band ). Two bandstands, one at either end of the dance floor, allowed multiple bands to play for the dancers. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Your email address will not be published. 40 Modern Dance and Dancer (March 1938), p. 13, and Munro, Dancing Mad. Paste as plain text instead, cheers John.It was a good pub the Horse and Jockey. Artists from Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, England. Dance music was clearly a dominating feature. Anyone with any memories? This crowd was going to get bigger as the day progressed. The Locarno, Streatham, designed by Trehearne and Norman, Preston and Company, opened with much press interest in September 1929.Footnote 44 Advertised as England's Super Dance Hall, it cost 60,000, with 10,000 spent on the ventilation system alone.Footnote 45 Kerr's Palais de Danse in Croydon was similar in scale and ambition. It also had dedicated band rooms for the musicians. The strike action by RCN members is expected to lead to delays for planned operations at the trust affected, Investigation launched as man is injured after getting trapped between truck and trailer, He has been taken to hospital to be treated for his injuries, Revolution in Leicester to close two days a week amid rising costs, 'Inadequate' GP surgery's delays to cancer referrals and patient care slammed, One person waited seven months for "urgent" blood tests. It was the Mansfields who were the band during the competition. Yes I was a little naive at 16-17. It was really the Good Old days. I worked at The Sherwood Rooms part time for a while, firstly as a Bingo checker then as a ballroom assistant, just standing around in evening dress being helpful a really cushy job. While the numbers of cinemas were tallied by a well-organised industry, there was no central collation of statistics regarding the dance-hall industry. I'm looking for photos of "The Jay Cats" - "The Jay Birds" - Early photos of Alvin Lee, Leo Lyons, Ric Lee, Dave Quickmire - Ten Years After..this also includes any and all photos of these bands and people for use on our websites. Very special memories of the old place including the performers and of course themusic! Want to read more Leicestershire nostalgia? Sons and Lovers were a great local Ruddington band, dont think they are playing anymore but anyone that remembers them, good film on You Tube, Sons and Lovers live at the Festival Inn, Trowell, doing I got rhythm with original members, great watch. This multi-class audience for dance halls, and the democratisation it represented, was reflected in their design and even their names. 7), designed by Clement Stretton and George Nott and opened in 1926, drew particular praise from The Builder for its elegant arcaded faade with neoclassical swag decoration.Footnote 47 The Astoria Palais de Danse in Bolton (Fig. The third and final type of dance hall was built as part of a multi-purpose complex. Nottingham Palais paid more than laying a new dance oor, and in October the Hammersmith Palais spent on a maple oor.19 The installation of dance oors required consideration of several crucial issues. Meanwhile, sitters out and balcony watchers (always a significant proportion of the dance-hall crowd) provided a constant background accompaniment with their gossip, horseplay and chatter.Footnote 95, Movement, another key sensory experience of the dance hall, was vital to the liberty and freedom it symbolised. I love the Palais for giving me some of the best moments in my life. Fig. Dancing had a cross-class appeal and yet, by the mid-1920s, it was predominantly an activity of the working and lower-middle classes. 15. 17 Rose Blincoe, Rochdale, Lancashire, 1991 (personal communication). As always you can unsubscribe at any time. I could say, after the Wirrina in Peterborough where I was living at the time, I really "cut my teeth" at the Palais all dayer's and never missed one. The architect commissioned to make the conversion was Bertie Crewe (d. 1937), one of the country's leading theatre architects, who had designed over a hundred theatres, music halls and cinemas throughout Britain, including the Piccadilly and Shaftesbury theatres in London and the Palace Theatre, Manchester.Footnote 34 Booker and Mitchell's decision to employ an architect of national standing was indicative of their determination to make an architectural statement as a way of enhancing the reputation of their new venture. The budget was large and the quality of the building located on a prime corner site adjacent to the city's busy central market area (Fig. It made over three times its original capital in the first twelve months and rapidly became known both nationally and internationally. .May not have played at the Palais but Im sure played in local pubs, I think both used to appear at the White Gates at Forest Town in the 60s /70s. The History of the British Holiday Camp, A Broken Wave: The Rebuilding of England 19401980, Coventry: The Making of a Modern City 193973, Workers at Play: A Social and Economic History of Leisure 19181939, The Measurement of Consumers Expenditure and Behaviour in the United Kingdom, 19201938: Volume II, into another kind of life in which anything might happen Popular Music and Late Modernity, 19101930, CLH says The Collected Observations, Instructions and Philosophies of C.L. Constructed in 195860 at a cost of 204,205, it was conceived as part of a new shopping precinct in the heart of the city (in part based on the Rows in Chester).Footnote 69 The location in a shopping precinct reflected the growing importance of consumerism in British social and economic life. Cannot remember Ted Heath playing at the Palais in MansfieldHe did perform at Welbeck Abbey in the summer of 1951. Love reading this kind of thread, thanks! Exterior of the Leicester Palais, a purpose-built dance hall, 1926 (author's private collection), Fig. 13. Would I be right in saying Pete Waterman put in an appearance or two? Beginning as a practical necessity of separating the musicians from the dancers, the bandstand developed into a distinctive architectural feature. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Alternative Dance, Alternative/Indie Rock, Edmund de Waal: 2010s - 2020s 13754CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Painting, woodwork, fishing, beer, food, Thinking outside the box, talking, some history, d.i.y., Amateur Dramatics; Writing; Reading; Music, Fishing; Art. Grayman45 The interior of the Nottingham Palais (Fig. Postcard view of the interior of the dance hall at Pawtuxet, Rhode Island, 1911 (author's private collection). In this article, a dance hall is defined as a building permanently licensed and open most days of the year to the general public, the main purpose of which was to cater for public dancing.Footnote 7 Under this definition, the number of permanent dance halls in Britain fluctuated between 400 and 500 from 1920 to 1960.Footnote 8, The dance hall's considerable importance in twentieth-century British society its role in the growing emancipation of women, in emerging race relations and in enriching working-class social and cultural life is only beginning to be fully recognised.Footnote 9 Although the dance hall became a significant feature in the modern urban landscape, architectural historians, too, have given the new building type very little attention. up to 2s. Probably our most regular gig was the New Cross Inn, Sutton. I emigrated to Australia in 1972 but have very fond memories of those times. 39 Dancing Times, March 1928, pp. Subsidiary facilities included a large restaurant located off the main space and a caf surrounding the dance floor, together with a separate ice cream soda bar.Footnote 46. You think I get spare time after managing this lot? Not only the dance music, but also people talking, laughing, whispering and of course dancing all created a unique soundscape. Harry had an amazing drum kit, hand-painted with psychedelic designs. 87 Richards, Jeffrey, The Age of the Dream Palace: Cinema and Society in Britain, 19301939 (London, 1984), pp. Seen you pop up on a few of Coop's images now and again. Those in the mill towns of Lancashire, for example, attempted to recreate some of the splendour of the Blackpool ballrooms.Footnote 17 Entrepreneurs were also inspired by the cavernous dance halls that had emerged in the United States before the First World War such as the one in Pawtuxet, Rhode Island (Fig. Rose was a female entrepreneur, who in partnership with her husband established and ran the Calton Dance Hall in Rochdale from the mid-1930s. We are both still alive and live in a rural area of the Wairarapa 90 minutes drive north of Wellington. Even got "Paper Lace" - Billy don't be a hero & The night Chicago died.What happened to them I wonder? A waft of hot air, the rhythmic throb of the band, the hiss of feet on the ballroom floor assail you. We still have lots of friends in the Mansfield area. Scarce as hens teeth to find anything relating to the Jaybirds and Jay Cats. Hot Legs are basically the band 10cc, comprising Eric Stewart, Lol Creme, Kevin Godley and Graham Gouldman. 3). We have two adult sons and weve all visited Mansfield on several occasions. Adrian, who now lives in Durham, joined Ivor following a summer season at Torquay. Wendy Northern Soul Cinema Theatre Vaudeville Theatres Auditorium Courtesy Opera House An Article from arthurlloyd.co.uk. Used to have aquick drink in the Horse & Jockey just across the road back in those days., as did many Palais-De-Dance fans. 12), opened in 1965, included a Locarno, a bowling alley (run by Mecca's onetime rival Top Rank), an additional modern music dance floor (the Highland Room), several bars, snooker halls and even a gym.Footnote 68, Fig. I have a long and fond relationship with the old Notts Palais. In the early 90s the Palais was briefly used as a rave club. On their first trip into Nottingham he and a group of other airmen enquired where the action was. I bought myself a pair and used to change my socks in the toilet when I got there and again on the way home! 75 Stone, Richard and Rowe, D.A., The Measurement of Consumers Expenditure and Behaviour in the United Kingdom, 19201938: Volume II (Cambridge, 1966)Google Scholar. The reported intention was to create an exotic escape-world that lent itself to an immersive experience for its patrons.Footnote 37, Fig. 55 Nottingham Evening Post, 25 April 1925, p. 5. For example, the New Survey of London Life and Labour, conducted in 1928, found that, To-day dancing as an active recreation appeals to many people of all classes [] The dance-halls are within the range of nearly everybody's purse, and typists, shop assistants and factory girls rub shoulders in them [] People drop into a palais after the day's work or on Saturday evenings as casually as they go to a cinema.Footnote 77. 199204. The music rises to a final chord, the drummer crashes on the cymbal [] There is a steady din of conversation.Footnote 92. Ladies Boudoir, Mayfair dance hall, Newcastle, 1961 (Tyne and Wear Archives and Museums). Nov 21, 2013 - This Pin was discovered by Keith Lenthall Wells. Jaybirds most of all or Jaycats or Jail-Breakersor yes The Mansfields willey_dave@yahoo.de, I was with TYA and Ric January 11, 2019 in Osnabrck, Germany. I have 100's of sixties music on my iPod and listen to those memories as I drive around on the tractor. 34750. Mm, come to think of it I'm not sure that "is that you, that you baby" has any merit either. February 8, 2011 in 60's Nottingham. Also, will accept photos of the venues where they played. Performer: Wayne King and his Orch.Writer: Sid PhillipsFox Trot.Digitized at 78 revolutions per minute. Haven't heard it in ages, probably since the Palais!! 1896), whose interwar work also included the Casino Assembly Rooms in Stepney, east London, which contained a ballroom.Footnote 42 A notable survival, the Ritz dance hall built in Manchester in 1928, was an early work of the Manchester practice of Cruickshank and Seward.Footnote 43, Choosing well-established architects demonstrated the willingness of dance-hall businesses to make significant investments and helped attract publicity. 1. The old Victoria Hall had been taken over by Mr and Mrs HG Roscoe in September 1929 and re-christened the Palais de Danse. One sprung dance-floor system that came to dominate from the 1920s onwards was the Valtor floor, developed by Francis Morton and Company of London. 5. for this article. Common locations were town halls, assembly rooms and church halls, but public dances were also held frequently in swimming baths, department stores, political clubs, hotels and restaurants. Yep I went to the dayers and nighters. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. 7 We should be careful to exclude from this definition dancing schools and other places where the main purpose was to teach dancing, with public dances put on as a secondary attraction. met my girlfriend of the time Sue Elliott daughter of Gerry Elliott ex sheriff of Nottingham and overman down Gedling pit, nearly crapped myself when I started working there and saw him. 60 Nottingham Evening Post, 9 February 1929, p. 5. During the late 1980s the Palais de Danse reinvented itself as a popular nightclub venue. Heimann (1938). I was 9 years old and it was Christmas. The Leeds Locarno also had an Americana food bar and Flamingo coffee bar, all indicative of a popular interest in travel and the exotic. The Tower Ballroom in Blackpool, redesigned by Frank Matcham and opened in 1899, was a particularly noteworthy example.Footnote 16 Dancing was also increasingly accommodated as part of the provision of seaside pavilions, including examples as disparate as Ramsgate's Royal Victoria Pavilion, designed by S.D. 36 Dancing World (AugustSeptember 1921), p. iv. So in 1971 I found myself in this wonderful exotic place called the Bali Hai with strange looking plastic trees, surrounded by sandwiches, cakes and jelly, listening to "Chirpy Cheep Cheep" by Middle Of The Road. 95 MOA, WC, 48/C, Observations of Saturday Night, 3 April 1937, pp. 57 For a full discussion of the moral panic associated with dance halls, based on allegations of immorality, misbehaviour from youths and concerns about race, see Nott, Going to the Palais, passim. I didn't even recognise them until Jarv sayed hello to them. Guest malc gibbons, November 8, 2008, Soul Source - A Soul music magazine Originally named the Palais de Danse when it opened 23 The Builder, 14 November 1924, p. 799. Each year from 1918 to 1965, between roughly 2000 and 3000 venues were licensed for regular dancing in Britain.Footnote 4 The number of venues in individual towns and cities could be correspondingly large. No money changed hands, a cheery grunt from Mike Knight and we made a beeline to the big green sofas right under the DJ box to the left of the stage. The Bomb (1997 ?) In an era of full employment and job security, real wages rose by 20 per cent between 1951 and 1959. We also played the Festival Hall, Kirkby as well as many pubs and clubs in the area. 17).Footnote 83 The rococo-style mirrors had lights above with tasselled fabric lampshades, and sconces in between. I remember the Palais when the most popular performers were Johnny Gold & The Sovereigns and The Newtones. Hello Bill, Im not 100% sure but I think it very likely that the Mansfields did play the Palais at some stage or other. A small group of young lads would gather in Gedling and make their way to the number 50 bus about 11am. And another one on my list! A very popular and lively venue, especially when run (from 1991) by Nottingham blues legend Barry Middleton. Others updated and altered their atmosphere regularly using such decorative schemes. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter sent straight to your inbox. Happy (but strange) days! By 83 TWA, DT.Tur/4/AG1833/c, Mayfair Ballroom, Newcastle Powder Room (1961). At Christmas? Upload or insert images from URL. See also Ward, Colin and Hardy, Dennis, Goodnight campers! That was the famous and now legendary sign located above the entrance to the Nottingham Palais de Danse one of the many traditional dance hall venues owned by the Mecca Leisure group. I remember a ex boxer guy the used to get a skipping rope out on the upstairs dance floor. Dance halls are also distinct from ballrooms, which were dance floors within buildings with other purposes and often not open to the general public for example, ballrooms in country houses. 72 Ibid. Three stylii were used to transfer this record. Again all tunes that for me mate are Station road memories. His encore was 'Now is the Time' which he reprised. I still remember MK shouting from the steps and then whilst walking the queue checking us all out .. BIG and fond memories of the venue I cut my teeth in. It had a small revolving circular dance floor. Originally named the Palais de Danse when it opened as a dance hall in 1925, it later became the Ritzy in the late 1980s, then the Palais again, Oceana, and then Pryzm. Many of the Mecca dance halls became bingo halls. Consumerism expanded, with home ownership among manual workers reaching 40 per cent by 1962.Footnote 80 The architecture of the dance hall reflected this further democratisation of pleasure, the new centrality of the working class to national life, and a new version of modernity. In 1997 it was given another makeover and re-appeared as a new night club. Lovely post Martyn , would Sharon be from Langley Mill by any chance ? We reverted back to the name Our Young. The colourful and refined interior of Derby's Palais de Danse (Figs 14 and 15) demonstrates the level of glamour in leading dance halls. Two records I remember from there were, Love of the common people Nikki Thomas, The latter people would sit in the floor in front of each other sitting between the person behinds, legs, and rock backward and forward and side to side. The faade of the main dance hall was given a canopy edged in slate to match the surrounding buildings, while the rest consisted of red and grey dark-brick panels separated with recessed blind windows of brightly coloured glass mosaic, bordered above and below with fascias of Sicilian white marble.Footnote 71 The mosaic was the work of Fred Millett (192080), a mural artist with an extensive portfolio in both the public and private sectors, having worked on commissions for London County Council, Hertfordshire schools, the Post Office and National Westminster Bank.Footnote 72 The dance hall's internal illumination included strip lighting around the edge of the balcony and bandstand, interspersed with frequent use of sputnik-like spotlights in the contemporary style. in 1913 to 3 10s. Only the coming of war halted the project. Wollaston offered several anonymous offers for anyone who could isolate palladium, so the elements discovery was credited to Richard Chenevix in 1803. 16 See Walton, John K., The Re-making of a Popular Resort: Blackpool Tower and the Boom of the 1890s, Local Historian, 24 (1994), pp. The one who lived down Colwick was still doing a solo turn in pubs and clubs, a couple of the others still toured as "Paper Lace" and did an absolutely brilliant version of "The Sabre Dance". Can anyone remember Reg Guest Trio and Ian King Trio? For example, in 1925 Liverpool had 152 places permanently licensed for dancing; in 1926 Newcastle-upon-Tyne had 99.Footnote 5 In 1935 Birmingham had 176 permanent dancing venues, and in 1937 Glasgow had 256.Footnote 6 These venues were not all purpose-built, however, and the range of buildings used was diverse. and The Builder, 9 September 1960, p. 471. 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Later, in the 1950s, large numbers of redundant cinemas and theatres were converted into dance halls, as dancing outperformed both as a form of entertainment. Well it was a Christmas party being held for all the children of the staff who worked at the Palais. My name is real and feel free to contact me with any information. From the mid-1920s until the mid-1960s, the dance hall occupied a pivotal place in the culture of working- and lower-middle-class communities in Britain. Your email address will not be published. Not now but used to be, Cycling C.T.C.,Badminton,Judo and Karate,Holidays,Dancing modern at first then old time and sequence. Its brutalist style brought dance provision into a new architectural era.Footnote 73, As a new building type, the dance hall was a symbol of social, cultural and political change. We worked and lived in Wellington until 1992 when we moved to the Wairarapa Region and celebratedour 54th wedding anniversary this year! I used to work part time evenings in the bar at the Palais during the 1960s. Nottingham, Family, Private functions targeting the upper-middle and upper classes would be licensed to serve alcohol and food, would be granted extensions to go on for longer, and would often involve fancy dress or other special themes.Footnote 60 Public nights were never licensed (not until the 1960s) and would not usually involve fancy dress. The line-up of the orchestra had changed, also the name Carmen Sylva (for his orchestra) vanished. I love the Palais for some of the most endearing and enduring friendships I have ever made. Hi John, yes great days, wonderful memories of our younger days. Especially in new buildings, which were liable to be damp on completion, room had to be left around the floor to allow the wood to swell. Later on until a few year ago we were into sequence dancing and used to go to Bestwood Miners Welfare,, Calverton Miners Welfare, Gedling Miners Welfare and others. Elvis Presley Fans Dance On A Traffic Island Outside The Palais De Danse Hall in Nottingham. In September 1931, the Nottingham Palais paid more than 1000 laying a new dance floor, and in October 1933 the Hammersmith Palais spent 5000 on a maple floor. The development of seaside holiday resorts, with their numerous amusement facilities, also provided the physical spaces and business experience necessary for the emergence of the dance hall. Wednesday evening and Saturday afternoon. 8), constructed at the expense of local businessman Thomas Bolton in 1928, is a striking example of how dance-hall frontages could make eye-catching statements on street corners. Its Stag Room offered men electric shavers, hair cream and free shoeshine. People of different classes did attend the Nottingham Palais, but they did not necessarily mix. Returned to the Palais when I finished working there and remember seeing Cliff Bennett & The Rebel Rousers one night. It provides the first overview of dance halls from an architectural and spatial history perspective. Even got "Paper Lace" - Billy don't be a hero & The night Chicago died.What happened to them I wonder? Hi Bill North yes remember Sons and Lovers 1969. Personally, one of my fave records from the Palais dayers was Toni Basil's "Beakaway". I heard he had some problems after dropping off the scene. Keith also told me that Ric Lee is writing a book and once some legal wrangles are sorted it should be published under the title From head stocks to Woodstock. I entered into a singing competition they use to run and I won. The last I heard (Mind you this was mid 90's before my sojourn to lands foreign,) they were still going in one way shape or form . 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